He folded the notice into a tight, frustrated ball. His hands trembled slightly. The audacity of it! His apartment building was converting. The thought of the open house, the endless stream of strangers traipsing through his space, infuriated him.

He slammed his fist on the counter. His head throbbed. He’d always prided himself on his ability to find a bargain. Now he had to move, and he had no idea where to start.

He ran a hand over his face. He felt completely overwhelmed, like he was drowning in a sea of paperwork and real estate jargon. The world was spinning.

Emotion: exasperated

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -0.99 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.23

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion exasperated. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 exasperated stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the exasperated emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the exasperated vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
S0.435
l0.378
P0.331
que0.320
la0.269
Suppressed:
own-0.433
gradually-0.254
soon-0.248
unfolding-0.216
joyful-0.216